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Subjective well-being in China, 2005-2010 : the role of relative income, gender and location

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Xiao, Saizi; Yeoh, Kok Kheng - 2016

poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …

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The unequal impact of the COVID pandemic : theory and evidence on health and economic outcomes for different income groups

Aubert, Cécile; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2022

This paper studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two papers and their theoretical and empirical results....

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Does the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affect the poor? : evidence from a six-country survey

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Toan Luu Duc Huynh; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, barely any evidence currently exists on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We provide the first study that offers new theoretical and empirical evidence on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on...

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Migration's income and poverty impact has been underestimated

Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor) - 2006

This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected impact is shown to be three to five times larger for income and two to three times larger for poverty than is obtained … from standard analysis. Second, existing studies examine migration's impact on the poverty of the entire sample. However …

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Income satisfaction and deprivation in Spain

Labeaga, José M. (contributor); … - 2007

The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these being relative deprivation, and the second is to measure this relative deprivation, in both monetary and satisfaction terms. To that end, we use data from the eight waves of the...

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Parental child care time, income and subjective well-being : a multidimensional polarization approach for Germany

Merz, Joachim; Peters, Normen - 2019

Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is time which enables and restricts individual activities and is a further brick to a more comprehensive picture of individual well-being. In our study we focus on a prominent part...

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Top incomes in Germany, 1871-2014

Bartels, Charlotte - 2018

This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present. Income concentration was high in the nineteenth century, dropped sharply after World War I and during the hyperinflation years of the 1920s, and increased rapidly throughout the...

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Income inequality and well-being in the U.S. : evidence of geographic-scale- and measure-dependence

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Graham, Carol - 2016

U.S. income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades. Researchers consistently find that greater income inequality measured at the state or national level is associated with diminished subjective well-being (SWB) in the U.S. We conduct the first multi-scale analysis (i.e., at the...

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Top incomes and human well-being around the world

Burkhauser, Richard V.; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; … - 2016

The share of income held by the top 1 percent in many countries around the world has been rising persistently over the last 30 years. But we continue to know little about how the rising top income shares affect human well-being. This study combines the latest data to examine the relationship...

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Inequality and panel income changes : conditions for possibilities and impossibilities

Duval-Hernández, Robert; Fields, Gary S.; Jakubson, George - 2020

The question of who benefits from economic growth is usually assessed by using cross section data to calculate changes in income inequality. An alternative is to assess patterns of panel income changes. We derive theoretical conditions reconciling changes in inequality together with various...

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